Kolar to get city’s second animal birth control centre

Bhopal: Delayed by about three months, second animal birth control (ABC) facility to sterilize, vaccinate stray dogs in state capital will be functional by the end of the month. Two more ABC facilities are expected to be functional by March end.BMC commissioner, KVS Choudary said civic body’s latest ABC centre will begin at Kolar in 10 days’ time. BMC aims to make the city safe for humans and animals. Two ABC centres are will be functional at Kolar and Neelbad. Two more are under construction at Adampur Chhawani and Urbalia. BMC has a dedicated wing for dealing with stray animals. Penalties are being imposed and owners of cattle are sensitised about movement of stray cattle on city roads. A census by the veterinary department in 2019 estimated there are around 10,000 domesticated dogs in Bhopal. The number of stray dogs could be 1.3 to two lakh dogs in the state capital.Choudary reviewed the construction ABC centre at Adampur Chhawani. He directed to speed up the work and complete the shed construction, flooring work and boundary wall construction work soon. Last October, 35% of all the complaints across MP were linked to stray animals in public places. Around 22% of the complaints were unresolved. Currently the number of dogs sterlisations being conducted is low. Three times more puppies are born per day, according to BMC experts. Last year, the matric of stray dogs stood at around 30 dogs being neutered and vaccinated each day against 100-added each day. Bhopal adopted ABC programme more than a decade later than other metros.
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